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Virtual Library
Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Oxford Premium English Dictionary
a comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus of current English. Plus grammar resources
including New Hart's Rules and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
The John Johnson Collection
The John Johnson Collection
This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Arts and Music
BBC Music Memories
is a website designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories. Select from different genres of music or different decades.
BFI Replay
BFI ReplayProvides access to thousands of digitized videos and television programmes from the BFI National Archive (and partner organizations) to browse and enjoy, research or study.
Visit BFI Replay
Introduction and video
Topic based activities
BFI Screenonline
BFI Screenonline
An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips, supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, thousands of stills, posters and press books and an education zone for schools.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library
Listen to over 608,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music and access biographies of composers, discographies, opera synopses and libretti, and educational resources for GCSE and A-Level.
Visit Naxos Music Library
Introductory video
Search tools video
Playlists video
European Blues Association
European Blues Association
Incorporating the Archive of African American Music, The European Blues Association (EBA) promotes performances of African American Music in its many forms; provides participative educational activities for young people and adults; encourages research into African American Music and its cultural heritage, and in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire, facilitates study and discussion of issues related to the development of Black Music and its relationships with pop music and culture.
Reference
Inform Gloucestershire: Research & Intelligence
Inform Gloucestershire: Research & Intelligence
Inform Gloucestershire: Statistics, market research, maps, facts and figures relating to Gloucestershire...
Access to Research
Access to ResearchFree access to over 30 million academic articles from leading publishers, including science & environment, arts & culture, languages & literature, health & social care, business, history and much more.
Access to Research website
Searching guide
Introductory video
Local & Family History
Ancestry
Ancestry
The largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records.
Ancestry
Ancestry Support Centre)
Ancestry videos
Findmypast
Findmypast
The family history database that includes birth, marriage and death records, census data, electoral registers and land tax documents.
Findmypast website
Beginners guide to searching
1921 Census
How to search the 1921 Census
1939 Register
Tips on searching the 1939 Register
Findmypast sitemap
Family History Magazines
The following are available via Pressreader:
Family tree
Who do you think you are
Newspapers & Journals
BorrowBox
BorrowBox
A selection of BorrowBox ePress titles, including local newspapers, the I Newspaper, New Scientist and The Spectator.

Visit BorrowBox ePress
Getting started with the app (including video), and searching BorrowBox
British Newspaper Archive
British Newspaper Archive
Newspaper content dating from the 1700s.
Register with your email address and set a password. Sign in each time to access the full content for free.
Visit British Newspaper Archives
Browse by title
Frequently asked questions
Nature
Nature
Issues dating from 1860 to the present, made available via the Access to Research database
Pressreader
Pressreader
Access to UK and International newspapers and magazines, including most national newspapers, some local newspaper titles, and popular magazine titles.
Visit Pressreader
Getting started (including video), and how to sign in with a library card
Gloucestershire Newspapers Collection
Gloucestershire Newspapers Collection
Gloucestershire Newspapers: Find out what papers we have and where we hold them - for the whole county!
The Gazette
The Gazette
Published By Authority. Official Newspaper of Record for the UK and a modern, efficient way to disseminate and record official, regulatory and legal information.
Which?
Which?
Print copies of Which? magazine are available at the following libraries: Bishops Cleeve, Cirencester, Coleford, Dursley, Stroud & Tewkesbury.
Access to Which? Online is available at Cheltenham and Gloucester libraries, please ask staff to sign you in.
For the full Which Reviews, please contact the Ask Us service.
Ask Us
Which Online
Quick Serve
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